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The Century of the Child

Book by Ellen Key · 5 quotes · Baby, Affirmation, Baby Talk

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“For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.”